During recent years the field of women's studies has emphasized the growth of new scholarship on women as scholars began to recover women's history, women's literature, and both qualitative and quantitative data about women's lives in disciplines as diverse as classics and psychology, religion and medicine, philosophy and sociology. As a result, argue O'Barr and Wyer in this work, the amount of new material in women's studies is nothing short of staggering. Yet, work that addresses itself to the question of delivering this information in the classroom is scarce. We must begin again to examine our early pedagogical commitments, this time in light of the expectations of 1990s women's studies, students and their campus environment. Jean O'Barr and Mary Wyer draw from journals kept by students both undergraduate and graduate, in the women's studies programme at Duke University, a programme O'Barr has directed since its inception. The journal selections are organized into nine chapters with introductions by the editors to show the multiple ways that students engage ideas in the women's studies classroom. The table of contents reflects a familiar concept in women's studies - a learning process that moves from individual emotional experience toward collective action. The writings begin with emotional impact, then move to reconsidering relationships, developing a feminist identity, assessing the classroom and campus environment for women and teaching and learning within the women's studies environment. Three documents end the book to record students' efforts toward activist change.

Engaging Feminism: Students Speak Up & Speak Out (Feminist Issues : Practice, Politics, Theory)

Politics & Social Sciences

O'Brien, Jean

Social Sciences

Univ of Virginia Pr

In this lively and very readable collection; O'Brien has returned to many of her earlier themes, including dislocation - as she seeks to capture the precise moment of an event, its fulcrum. There are poems of heart and hearth and human relationships, familial, sexual, and historical: a father neglecting to teach his young daughter to swim, the trapped girls of The Chinese Chest, and poems of nature; often as closely concerned with the nature of man as the countryside they describe. Many of these poems, though serious in intent, are dealt with in a lighthearted and often witty manner, exploring a fascination with the ways of the world and its moral contradictions.                               ""An excellent collection and choice pick."" Midwest Book Review

Lovely Legs

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Salmon Poetry

These are engagingly written poems using the acoustic play of consonants and vowels so necessary for bringing life and music to the poetry. Accessible and often strongly narrative they are always alert to the comic and everyday even when broaching hard subjects such as illness, mental illness, and death. As always in O'Brien's work, images of nature and landscape as well as relationships and a lively engagement with the ways of the world resonate with grace and candor.

Merman

Stars Burn Regardles

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